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Home › Culture › Literature › Latin-American Authors › Chile

Chile

Eduardo Barrios

Born: 25 OCT 1884 – Valparaíso, Chile

Died: 13 SEP 1963

Type: Prose writer, dramatist

Achievements:

  1. Chilean National Prize for Literature (1946)
  2. Atenea Prize for the University of Concepción (1949)

María Luisa Bombal

Born: 08 AUG 1910 – Viña del Mar, Chile

Died: 06 MAY 1980 – Santiago

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

Ariel Dorfman

Born: 06 MAY 1942 – Buenos Aires

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Chilean prose writer, dramatist

Achievements:

  1. Chile Films Award (1972)
  2. Israeli Alternative Theatre Festival Prize (1987)
  3. Kennedy Center-American Express New American Plays Award (1988)
  4. Time Out Award (London, 1991)
  5. Olivier Award (London, 1992)

Augusto D’Halmar (Augusto Geommine Thompson)

Born: 23 APR 1882 – Santiago, Chile

Died: 27 JAN 1950

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. National Prize for Literature (Chile, 1942 – the first ever to receive it)

José Donoso

Born: 05 OCT 1924 – Santiago, Chile

Died: 07 DEC 1996 – Santiago

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. City of Santiago Prize (1955)
  2. Chile-Italy Prize for Journalism (1960)
  3. William Faulkner Foundation Prize (1962)
  4. Guggenheim Fellowship (1968, 1973)
  5. Critics’ Prize (Spain, 1979)
  6. Encomienda con Placa de la Order de Alfonso X el Sabio (1987)
  7. National Prize for Literature (Chile, 1990)
  8. Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship (1992)

Joge Edwards

Born: 29 JUL 1931 – Santiago, Chile

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

Diamela Eltit

Born: ?? ??? 1949 – Santiago, Chile

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Guggenheim Grant (1985)
  2. Social Science Research Council Scholarship (1988)

Vincente Huidobro

Born: 10 JAN 1893 – Santiago, Chile

Died: 02 JAN 1948 – Cartagena, Colombia

Type: Poet, prose writer

Achievements:




Enrique Lihn

Born: 03 SEP 1929 – Santiago, Chile

Died: 24 JUL 1988

Type: Poet, prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Casa de las Américas of Poetry Prize (1966)

Baldomero Lillo

Born: 06 JAN 1867 – Lota, Chile

Died: 10 SEP 1923

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

Gabriela Mistral

Born: 07 APR 1889 – Vicuña, Chile

Died: 10 JAN 1957 – Hempstead, New York, USA

Type: Poet

Achievements:

  1. Nobel Prize for Literature (1945)
  2. Franciscan American Prize (1950)
  3. National Prize for Literature (Chile, 1951)

Pablo Neruda (Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto)

Born: 12 JUL 1904 – Parral, Chile

Died: 23 SEP 1973 – ??

Type: Poet

Achievements:

  1. Co-editor of Caballo Verde para la Poesia, Spain (1935-1936)
  2. Co-editor of Aurora de Chile (1938)
  3. Member of the World Peace Council (1950-????)
  4. President of the Union of Chilean Writers (1957-1973)
  5. National Literature Prize (1945)
  6. Stalin Peace Prize (1953)
  7. Viareggio-Versilia Prize for Cultural Understanding (1967)
  8. Nobel Prize for Literature (1971)

Nicanor Parra

Born: 05 SEP 1914 – San Fabián, Chile

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Poet

Achievements:

  1. City of Santiago Prize (1937, 1954)
  2. Writers’ Union Prize (1954)
  3. National Literature Prize (1969)
  4. Guggenheim Fellowship (1972)
  5. Juan Rulfo Prize (1991)

Violeta Parra

Born: 04 OCT 1917 – San Carlos, Nuble, Chile

Died: 05 FEB 1967 – Santiago, Chile

Type: Song writer

Achievements:

  1. Helped rescue Chile’s authentic rural music
  2. Caupolicán Prize as Outstanding Folklorist of the Year (1953)
  3. First to have an individual show by a Latin American artist in the Museum of Mankind (Paris, 1963)

Gonzalo Rojas

Born: ?? ??? 1917 – Chile

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Poet

Achievements:

  1. National Prize for Literature (1992)
  2. Reina Sofía Prize for Poetry (1992)

Antonio Skármeta

Born: 07 NOV 1940 – Antofagasta, Chile

Died: ?? ??? ????

Type: Prose writer

Achievements:

  1. Casa de las Américas Prize (1969)
  2. Daniel Belmar Prize (1969)
  3. Biarritz Film Festival Prize (1983)
  4. Huelva Film Festival Prize (1983)
  5. Guggenheim Fellowship (1986)




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